The University Against Itself

The University Against Itself:
The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace

Edited by Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm and Andrew Ross

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Corporate University?

Ashley Dawson and Penny Lewis, NYC: Academic Labor Town?

Ellen Schrecker, Academic Freedom in the Age of Casualization

Mary Nolan, A Leadership University for the Twenty-first Century? Corporate Administration, Contingent labor, and the Erosion of Faculty Rights

Christopher Newfield and Greg Grandin, Building a Statue of Smoke:
The NYU Trustees, Finance Culture, and the Demotion of Intellectual Labor

Stephen Duncombe and Sarah Nash, ICE From the Ashes of FIRE: NYU and the Economy of Culture in New York City

Adam Green, The High Cost of Learning: Tuition, Educational Aid, and the New Economics of Prestige in Higher Education

Micki McGee, Blue Team, Gray Team: Some Varieties of the Contingent Faculty Experience


Part II: GSOC Strike

Unions at NYU, 1971-2007

Susan Valentine, The Administration Strikes Back: Union Busting at NYU

Steve Fletcher, "Bad News for Academic Labor? Lessons in Media Strategy from the GSOC Strike

Maggie Clinton, Miabi Chatterji, Sherene Seikaly, Natasha Lightfoot, Naomi Schiller, "If Not Now, When? Lessons Learned from GSOC's 2005-6 Strike"

Jeff Goodwin, faculty

Andrew Cornell, Undergraduate Participation in Campus Labor Coalitions: Lessons from the NYU Strike

Matthew Osypowski (with Adam Graham Silverman), Operation Class-move

Part III: Lessons for the Future

The State of the Academic Labor Movement: A Roundtable with Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Bowen and Ed Ott, Moderated by Kitty Krupat

Andrew Ross, Global U

Monika Krause, and Michael Palm, Activists into organizers! How to Work with Your Colleagues and Build Power in Graduate School

Gordon Lafer , Sorely Needed: A Corporate Campaign for the Corporate University
Cary Nelson, Graduate Employee Unionization and the Future of Academic Labor